Heterogeneity in price stickiness and the real effects of monetary shocks

Frontiers of Macroeconomics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-58

  Carvalho, Carlos ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Heterogeneity; New Keynesian Phillips curve; Persistence; Price stickiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846024751     PISSN: 15346021     EISSN: 15550486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-6021.1320     Document Type: Article

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